Ivan Ljubicic returns to the PBZ Zagreb Indoors to try and best his effort in 2007 when, as the top seed, he was upset by No. 2-seeded Marcos Baghdatis in the three-set final.
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Ljubicic is once again the top seed, but Baghdatis and other name players failed to show, with no Top 20-ranked competitors in attendance.

After failing to surpass the third round at any Grand Slam in 2007, Ljubicic resides outside the Top 20 after ranking No. 3 in 2006.

C’mon, tennis fans, you musn’t visit this site often enough! Or maybe you do but you don’t get out to see goofy movies often enough. It’s Dr. ‘Ivo’, as in ‘Dr. Evil,’ from that silly Austin Powers movie w/Mike Myers. That’s it.

Thanks tennismonger (And you’re quite right, I don’t get out to goofy movies often enough). But am I to understand Karlovic is “Dr. Ivo” only because of the phonetic similarity(?) of ‘Evil’ and ‘Ivo’? That’s a major stretch even by the whimsical standards of contemporary popular culture.

tennismonger:
“C’mon, tennis fans, you musn’t visit this site often enough!”

Tell me you’re kidding. Seriously though, I heard one of the commentators saying that he has a PhD., and his wife is also a professional. If you’re correct, then I need to have my hearing checked, or the commentator needs to get his facts correct.

OK, just as I have attempted to enlighten, I too may have been enlightened as well.

It would not surprise me at all if Ivo indeed has a PhD (at the risk of igniting another thread/argument it’s my perception that Europeans athletes take their studies far more seriously than their American counterparts) which would make it a sort of play on words/nickname w/a cultural reference thrown in.